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By Courtney Stelzel
The Battalion
A Texas A&M student suspected of
stealing more than 40 bikes on campus
was charged with felony for theft, re
sisting arrest, tampering with evidence
and possession 6f criminal evidence
Wednesday morning.
Esteban Irigoyen. 26, an electrical
engineering graduate student, is being
held at the Brazos County Jail as an in
vestigation begins to determine
whether he was involved in other crim
inal activities.
In response to a surge in bike thefts
— 54 since fall classes started — the
University Police Department (UPD)
staked out the Memorial Student Cen
ter (MSC) and Rudder complex, where
it placed two bikes as bait Wednesday
morning.
According to UPD, Irigoyen ap
proached one of the unlocked bikes,
mounted it and rode away at 11:20 a.m.
Two undercover officers stopped
Irigoyen. but he resisted arrest and at
tempted to get rid pf a lock pick in his
possession.
Irigoyen had a detailed list of more
than 40 bikes that he had allegedly
stolen since students returned to campus
for the fall semester, according to UPD.
The-itemized list included where the
bikes were allegedly stolen from, where
they had been relocated to and had de
tailed facts about each bike. Many of the
bikes had been stolen from Southside
residence halls, the MSC, the Zachry
Engineering Center and the Wisenbak-
er Engineering Research Center.
According to University police offi
cers, they searched Irigoyen's Walton
Hall room and found more than 31
types of keys for bike locks, picks, tools
needed to cut chains, $4,400, various
types of electrical and computer equip
ment and 600 to 700 textbooks, many
of which were brand new.
Bob Wiatt, director of UPD, said of
ficers are waiting for further warrants to
continue their search of Irigoyen’s resi
dence hall room.
Of the stolen bikes, UPD has found
20 bicycles, and six have been returned
to their owners. Officers are continuing
their search for the bikes’ owners.
Wiatt said that, as a precaution, stu
dents should have their driver’s license
numbers engraved on their bikes for
identification purposes.
Last week, the UPD Crime Preven
tion Team engraved 334 bikes with
owners' driver’s license numbers free of
charge to help’prevent bike theft.
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photos of bikes that were seized.
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By Brian Ruff
The Battalion
The success of last year’s First Yell
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son with a 62-17 shellack-
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By Anna Bishop
The Battalion
Texas A&M students will witness an old
yell challenging tradition by taking on a new
face this football season.
“Old Army,” a yell not typically used at
athletic events due to its sheer length, has been
revised this summer, and is suited up and
ready to rev up the Aggies this season. .
“Old A;‘".y” v, as modified by this year’s
A&M yell leaders: Ricky Wood, Bubba
Moser, Ben Cholick, Kevin Grahanl■ and
Sam Seidel.
Ricky Wood, senior yell leader and a the
ater arts major, said the revised rendition of
>ld Army” will have a quicker beat; how-
/er, the words are unchanged.
“Old Army is a great yell, but because it
was so slow, it wasn’t very motivating,” Wood
said. “We will see how the students respond
Students' reactions have been positive
I about reinstating an old yell.
"Revamping an old yell we no longer use
and bringing it back to the student body by giv
ing it a new twist, is a good idea." said Andrew
Nicholas, a junior economics major. “Yells
have always encouraged student participation
and add to the excitement of game day.”
Leigh Samoff, a junior business major,
said she ?4«iees. saying that the veil is not de
fying Aggie Tradition
“Traditions can change with time, I think
it is appropriate to change up an old yell sel
dom used, making it a more frequently used
cheer.” she said.
Thompson said the change was a collabo
rative decision of this year’s yell leaders, with
the encouragement of the student body.
Thompson said “Old Army” was used in
last Friday's midnight yell in Chicago, before
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A Thursday night in Ag-
ieland usually signals the be-
inning of a fun weekend, but
with new University alcohol
penalties and tougher en
forcement by the University,
Bryan and College Station
police departments, many
students may be rethinking
their extracurricular activities.
“Jt is in the
best interest
of all in-
| volved to co
operate with
the officers. 77
— Dan Jones
public information
officer for CSPD
|7 Contrary to popular be-
•lief, officers do not have an
?[agenda to catch students in
. “the midst of a good time.
; [Most “broken-up” or “bust-
| td” parties start as noise vio-
: Jation reports. Once the offi
cers arrive on the scene,
Jthough, chaos often ensues.
“It is in the best interest of
all involved to cooperate
with the officers,” said Dan
Jones, public information of
ficer for the College Station
Police Department (CSPD).
“Citizens are required to
provide identification upon
the officers’ request.”
The purpose of identify
ing the parties involved is to
determine who is underage,
who is providing the alco
hol and who owns the prop
erty. A more common oc
currence, however, is the
instantaneous scattering of
partiers. When the running
begins, the charges can be
come more serious than
possession of alcohol.
“If people are jumping
fences and running through
backyards, they can often
be charged with evading ar
rest or criminal trespass
ing,” Jones said. “If proper
ty becomes damaged, those
fleeing can also be held li
able and charged with crim
inal destruction.”
Private parties are not
the only events being fo
cused upon.
Bob Wiatt, director of
UPD, said that with the for
mation this fall semester of
a joint task force between
the University Police De
partment (UPD) and CSPD,
Northgate and campus ar
eas are also being closely
monitored.
See Rights on Page 6A.
By Richard Bray
The Battalion
After spending much of
the past year in the Texas
A&M Cushing Library
studying the history behind
many Aggie traditions,
Cindy Boettcher, a lecturer
in the Educational Curricu
lum and Instruction Depart
ment and Class of ’76, has
written a new children’s
book about Aggieland titled
One, Two ... Hullabaloo!
“One, Two ... Hulla
baloo! is actually a sequel
edition to A is for Aggie,”
Boettcher said, referring to
her most recent book. “I
wanted to write about some
traditions that I couldn’t get
into the A is for Aggie book,
so I used the numbers one
through 20 and wrote a tra
dition that went with each of
the numbers.”
Boettcher’s writing career
started through a class she at
tended at A&M.
“I got started in my writ
ing career here at A&M
when I was a student,” she
said. “[The teacher] asked us
to write a twist on a tradi
tional piece of literature, so
I chose ‘Cinderella.’ I decid
ed — sort of as a spoof — to
write one about A&M, and
so I wrote Anna Meagan,
which stands for A&M.”
“I wanted to
write about
some tradi
tions that I
couldn'tget
into the A is for
Aggie book. 77
— Cindy Boettcher
author of One, Two ...
Hullabaloo!
Boettcher said theit, al
though she writes children’s
books, a lot of time goes into
research.
“These books usually take
at least a year due to the re
search,” she said. “I know that
sounds crazy for a book like
that, but I spend tremendous
hours in the Cushing Library.
I feel it’s very important to au
thenticate my work.”
The sale of Boettcher’s
books has helped provide
scholarships to A&M students.
“Some of the biggest sup
porters of my books for the
last five years have been the
See Book on Page 6A.
MSC’s
50th
Anniversary
celebration to be
held in Flagroom
By |om hi Pi.kasant
The Battalion
For half a century, the place known
as the living room of Texas A&M —
the Memorial Student Center — has
served students as a central meeting
place and student union. As it cele
brates its 50th anniversary this year,
a number of activites are planned.
The celebration will begin with a
reception in the MSC Flagroom Sat
urday at 10:30 a.m.
The program will begin with per
formances from student groups Fade
to Black, Ballet Folklorico, and
Apotheosis.
Former students will speak about
the MSC of the past, and how it has
changed over the years.
• Dr. Lamar McNew, Class of ’53
and MSC Council president 1952-
1953, as well as Don Friend, Class of
’55, vice president of MSC Council
1954-1955, will be in attendance to
give insight on activities at the MSC
during the ’50s.
• The first couple to ever be mar
ried in the MSC — Dr. Daniel
Pfannstiel, Class of ‘49 and director
emeritus of the Texas Agriculture Ex
tension Service, and his wife — will
describe their wedding in the MSC,
just after it opened in 1950.
Nathan Cray, president of the
MSC Council and a senior mechani
cal engineering major, said the MSC
is more than a student union; it radi
ates Aggie spirit and honor to the
A&M campus.
“The MSC stands as a living
memorial that is very meaningful —
especially the Congressional Medals
See MSC on Page 6A.
Drought, high temperature affects livestock, plants
By Cyra Gatling
The Battalion
The extreme heat and drought are
affecting more than just the students
BERNARDO GARZA/The Battalioi
Animals endure extreme temperatures and scorched
grass as the drought in Texas continues.
and residents in the Bryan-College Sta
tion area. Animals, plants, crops and
the soil are experiencing stress due to
intense temperatures.
“The big loss in Cen
tral Texas is in livestock,”
said Travis Miller, a soil
and crop science profes
sor and Texas Agricultur
al Extension Service
(TAES) agronomist.
“There is an increased
cost in hay, and the pas
tures are gone.”
Provisions such as
water reservoirs have
been made to prepare
for drought and other'
bad weather.
“We [have built]
water storages
designated to han
dle dry weather,”
Miller said. “It’s a
big concern to the
state if we can
match the stored water to the demand;
it looks like the water demand will con
tinue to increase.”
Although the plants are under a great
deal of stress, it is unlikely that any will
become extinct as a result of the drought.
However, the heat and lack of water have
taken a toll on many plants.
The hot and dry weather has been
hard on trees, shrubs, grasses and other
forms of plant life, said Dr. Don Wilker-
son, a horticulture science professor and
TAES specialist in horticulture.
“The heat and drought have created
This is part five of a five-part series about
the ongoing drought and how its impact
can be felt locally and regionally.
stress for the past 30 to 40 days,” he said.
The drought has not only affected
plant life, but it has also forced officials
to ration water.
“The water quality in Bryan-College
Station is poor,” Wilkerson said. “It is
extremely high in pH and sodium. We
depend on irrigation to supply water to
the shrubs, turfs and trees. In addition to
the stress of the high temperatures, we
have salt stress because we haven’t had
any significant rain.”
This weekend, the forecast predicts
See Drought on Page 5A.